An electric fever. Tesla is set to unveil its electric pickup truck. We will have the latest. First to our top story. Apple is overhauling how it tests software. Bloomberg has learned the system is changing after a swarm of bugs marred the latest iphone and ipad. The goal is to make it easier to spot problems earlier. This comes one day after President Trumps visit to apples austin, texas factory where ceo tim cook met the president to discuss keeping iphones free from tariffs. Lets bring in tom forte and Bloomberg Technologys mark. What do we know about the software change . Software has ios been bugging the past few years. What apple is doing is they are going to make it so engineers earlier in the process will determine what is buggy, what is working and what is not working in order to hopefully come up with a much more stable operating system when they ship each september. Taylor tom, i know that you cover the fundamentals of the business. In your opinion when you analyze the compa
Electric pickup truck. We will have the latest. First, to our top story. Apple is overhauling how it tests software. Bloomberg has learned the system is changing after a swarm of bugs marred the latest iphone and ipad. The goal is to make it easier to spot problems earlier. This comes one day after President Trumps visit to apples austin, texas factory where ceo tim cook met the president to discuss keeping iphones free from tariffs. Lets bring in tom forte and Bloomberg Technologys mark gurman. What do we know about the software change . Mark apples ios software has been bugging the past few years. What apple is doing is they are going to make it so engineers earlier in the process will determine what is buggy, what is working and what is not working in order to hopefully come up with a much more stable operating system when they ship each september. Taylor tom, i know that you cover the fundamentals of the business. In your opinion when you analyze the company, at what point do you h
Rate of growth is slowing. Now, this hour, im going to ask the president s top economic adviser, larry kudlow, two questions. Are we going into recession in the next 12 months and secondly, what reverses this slowdown . Larry kudlow coming up on this show this hour. Heres the market reaction. Not bad. The dow industrials going to be on the upside to the tune of about 50, 60 points but its early going. You never know how we will close. The s p up about six. Look at the nasdaq, thats going to be up about. 33 . Nice gain. Interest rates virtually unchanged. The yield on the tenyear treasury, 1. 54 . By the way, a rate cut by the fed this month considered a probability. Another cut in december considered a strong possibility. All right. Time to take a look at the latest attack on facebook. Roll tape. What we need is a president with the courage to enforce the antitrust laws. Break them up. And yes, Mark Zuckerberg, im looking at you. Stuart all right. There you have it. Elizabeth warren, n
Rosengren. And speaking of the fed, yes, there is more. We have an exclusive interview coming up. Loretta mester is the president of the cleveland fed right after the close. Joining us for the hour is charlie with aerial investments. Was this a big sigh of relief after the data from earlier in the week yeah, you know the markets was really nervous about a recession. Thats the conventional wisdom in the market. Theres a lot of evidence that bulls like me keep pointing to that were not, but you can see when we get even a soso number, the markets react very positively Services Growth is slowing and thats the point of contention right now, is does the manufacturing upset bleed into the consumer . And it does, you have a problem. You had a very strong wage growth its not even the fact that unemployment is going down, its that people feel secure in their job. Its a tight job market. People are not worried about losing their job theyre spending more and were still 70 of consumer economy. If t
To accelerate. Interestingly we published a couple of weeks back a note that said we might see the acceleration in the short term and this might be as bad as it gets but that should not change the overall picture that the rate of decline has dramatically tolerated for Traditional Television and there does not seem to be any question that we are in a new normal for the rate of decline for the traditional system is 5 or so a year which is extraordinarily rapid decline for something thats been around as long as traditional att division. Host youre talking cable and satellite primarily, correct . Guest correct. Traditional distribution via cable or satellite. What is interesting and most interesting part of the story is if you went back a year ago you would have said the virtual and bpd so the youtube tv and the who live in that sort of thing were really what was driving this migration away from traditional linear tv. Today it looks like that thesis was wrong and the uptake of those Virtua